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Private-equity titan Apollo Global Management priced its initial public stock offering at the top end of expectations Tuesday, signaling strong investor interest in the company. New York-based Apollo and its investors sold a total of 29.7 million shares...

In a move that spares Universal Orlando theme parks a potential financial jam next year, Steven Spielberg has agreed to delay by seven years his option to demand a payout worth hundreds of millions of dollars under a longstanding consulting......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has turned to the former head of an equity firm to spearhead the mayor's renewed job creation effort and push to make the city a more attractive, less bureaucratic locale for business. Austin Beutner, founder......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today named a successful Wall Street entrepreneur to help spur the city’s faltering economy as City Hall grapples with a crisis of high unemployment, escalating home foreclosures and a huge budget shortfall....

A longstanding alliance between Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando is approaching a crossroads. After nearly 15 years of selling joint ticket packages, the two resorts must decide within the next year and a half whether they want to continue selling...

The parent company of Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood says attendance at the two resorts dipped slightly during the first three months of the year. But the customers who did show up spent more money. “We had slightly lower attendance...

A top executive at SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has left the company. Joe Couceiro, SeaWorld Parks’ chief marketing officer, retired April 16, the company said Wednesday. Couceiro, an executive vice president who reported directly to SeaWorld Park...

Dish Network, the nation's second largest satellite broadcaster, with just over 14 million subscribers, is planning on dropping the Weather Channel and is starting the "Weather Cast," its own version of the network. The move comes after Dish and Weather.....

After the coffee. Before wondering if Al Gore had just seen "Solitary Man" when he and Tipper decided to split. Nielsen goes public. TV ratings service Nielsen has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $1.75 billion in......

Taima, a 20-year-old orca at SeaWorld Orlando, died Sunday at the park while in labor with a stillborn calf. Taima's calf was fathered by Tilikum, the orca who killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in February. Dr. Chris Dold, SeaWorld's vice president......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Employees wept and audience members grew silent Saturday at SeaWorld as the theme park's popular killer whale show resumed with a photo montage memorial for a trainer who was killed by one of the orcas in front......

Animal advocates all over the country have been voicing their opposition to keeping orcas in captivity since a SeaWorld Orlando orca named Tilikum killed his trainer Wednesday. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, while expressing sympathy for the...